Throughout Palestine's occupation, Israel has utilized and invested heavily in spatial and territorial tools to structurally and demographically alter the composition of the land and its inhabitants: a settler-colonialist project that aims to establish an ethnoreligious state in its place.
After the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948, Palestinians were displaced into what are known as refugee camps within the land of Palestine and in neighboring countries, which represent the limbo state by which Palestinian reality is defined.
The current form of a territorial scheme is characterized by fragmentation and domination, and can be seen as a series of instruments for controlling and eradicating the remains of Palestinians and Palestinian areas, while issuing more and more orders to expand colonies’ units in the Palestinian area: land and property expropriations within what was designated as the Palestinian territories (or the Palestinian future state) under the 1992 Oslo Accords.
This research is an attempt to underline the sets of force fields that shape the reality of the state of limbo that is Palestine, and how different spatial and territorial measures contribute to crystallizing settler-colonialist policies into concrete forms.
The role of the artefacts of spatial domination that the occupation exerts upon Palestinian Occupied Territories is a clear demonstration of how efficient architecture, urbanism, geography, spatial tools and measures can be utilized to imbed the politics of settler-colonialist regimes within the everyday spatial reality of the subjects that operate under it. Instrumentalization of architecture takes a central stage in my research, within context, which can be volatile and charged. Programmable architecture at this level takes on a less viable role, and it is only adapted to accommodate what it necessitates.
